Creativity and trust are important and beneficial factors for increasing workplace performance. In two case studies, Sid Caesar and Miles Davis virtuoso teams have common themes, such as generating creativity, focusing on trust, and intense time pressures. Virtuoso teams represent a dominate approach to getting work done in a business environment. Creativity enables virtuoso teams to solve problems and leverage opportunities through the integration of divergent thoughts and perspectives.
Virtuoso Teams Common Themes
In nearly any area of human achievement business, sports, and politics you will find teams that produce outstanding and innovative results. Sid Caesar’s virtuoso team pulled off the unthinkable by staying on top in the comedy entertainment business for nine years, where television is notorious for the unpredictability of its audience (Boynton & Fischer, 2005). Caesar directed the team rather than micro managed, he nurtured an environment to spawn creativity. The extent to which Caesar effectively influences others and performs his role shows genuine concern and acts that enhanced his trustworthiness with his team.
Unlike traditional teams which are typically made up of whoever’s available, regardless of their talent; virtuoso teams consist of star performers who are handpicked to play specific roles. Some teams produce the best results when forced together and under strict deadlines. Virtuoso teams embrace challenges and accept the risk of exposure and career damage if the project fails. Caesar’s team was big risk-makers. The team rejected the traditional stereotypes by giving the customer well thought out material that contributed to the vision and who the team was (Boynton & Fischer, 2005).
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...y to create prototypes to accelerate creativity, with a focused team approach to develop solutions for specific challenges.
Conclusion
In conclusion, the main objective was to explain how creativity and trust are important and beneficial factors for increasing workplace performance. Leadership is the vehicle through which team needs are satisfied to foster creativity and trust. Building virtuoso teams is critical in that it places team members in dynamic, rapidly changing conditions, which impose the need to achieve success. Virtuoso team leaders possess a multidimensional set of skills that enable them to build and enhance team members. Trust plays an important role in the innovation process. Teams who trust the leader share in the benefits accrued from their ideas are more likely to produce creative suggestions and engage in implementation of those ideas.
...resent diversity within the labor force and “each of them will also have networks of professional associates whose knowledge they can tap in order to solve problems and accomplish tasks. Needless-to-say, diverse people will have diverse networks and provide your company with a vast and diverse meta-network at your disposal” (p.1). In short, in supporting of creativity, innovators essentially need the backing from top leaders, and without that support, many initiatives may break down or die on the vine (Harvard). For any idea to be successful, it is vital that it is aligned with company strategy; there is more likely to occur naturally when top executives involve and take the lead with a idea or creativity initiative and this is a main reason why management commitment is a key factor in the accomplishment of any idea or innovation process (Baumgarther, 2010).
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What factors are necessary for building a strong team? Joshua Davis, author of the article “La Vida Robot,” and Walter Isaacson, author of “Steve Jobs,” both have perspectives on how to build a strong team, which compare and contrast in many ways. Both authors described their ideas of what the factors to build a strong team are, and they were both similar and different in many ways.
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Production teams are teams that run things and will be long-term groups that are tasked with a constant goal. Members of this team must have a long-term relationship, a solid foundation of operations, and external support to maintain a high-level of performance over a long period (Schermerhorn et al., 2005, Chapter 10). This type of team is affected by a daily requirement for high output and efficiency.
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